Crossroads Systems, Inc. is announcing the general availability of SecureVTS, its Virtual TapeServer (VTS) encryption solution for data backed-up and restored from disk.

SecureVTS is a simple, integrated and cost-effective encryption VTS module that is being sold under the Crossroads brand and distributed through Crossroads’ long-standing OEM-branded partnerships.

The Problem
The number of publicized security breaches over the past 2 years has been alarming. Companies are facing an ever-increasing challenge of protecting corporate assets and meeting compliance and governance requirements. One such compliance standard is the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard which requires that data-at-rest be encrypted per its security requirements - sections 3.4 through 3.6. This means that both “data stored on removable media,” such as on tape and optical devices, as well as “data stored on disk” arrays need to be encrypted. Companies must rapidly adopt new data encryption solutions to protect their data in a cost-effective yet scalable manner. Crossroads SecureVTS enables customers to meet specific IT security compliance requirements as well as business objectives.

The Solution
VTS - A large percentage of companies use Crossroads Virtual TapeServer (VTS) to ensure the rapid backup and recovery of their data stored on disk. Crossroads VTS is a backup appliance consisting of a server, disk storage and virtual tape software developed by Crossroads. Crossroads’ Virtual TapeServer (VTS) emulates industry standard tape drive(s) by storing data onto disk as it would onto tape - but many times faster. Therefore, companies can perform backups faster, reduce the backup windows, deliver fast data restores and recoveries, and ensure that finding the right tape and file to recover can be done rapidly as well as reduce media and backup labor costs.
SecureVTS Encryption - SecureVTS is a software module for Crossroads Virtual TapeServer (VTS) that encrypts and decrypts backup data being written on disk from one or more host servers. As compliance regulations and organizations highly recommend the encryption of valuable data, SecureVTS provides Virtual TapeServer (VTS) users such as banking institutions, stock exchanges, telecommunication and healthcare companies with a robust encryption solution that deploys on existing hardware. Crossroads uses industry standard 256-bit AES symmetric key encryption and includes an integrated key server as well as key database that support the full key management lifecycle.

“As world-leading enterprises such as banks, stock exchanges, telecommunication and healthcare companies already use Crossroads’ Virtual TapeServer,” said Rob Sims, CEO & President of Crossroads Systems, “Crossroads SecureVTS offers a simple, integrated and cost-effective modular data security solution that will increase sales opportunities to current VTS customers-base as well as enable new VTS/SecureVTS customers to meet encryption compliance requirements easily, in a resource and cost-effective manner."

Crossroads Systems, Inc.